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Ignite Portland 4, which took place last night, Thursday, November 14, is a free event, but nonetheless you need a ticket to get in. I had nearly forgotten mine, and so was pushing hard against the 6:15 deadline,...   More

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WW correspondent Matthew Korfhage was nice enough to send us his musings on last week's Wordstock Festival. And because we're awful people, we haven't gotten the post up until today. Don't worry, it was worth the wait:
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Books Ben Ohara, narrator of David Mura’s debut novel, Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire (Coffeehouse Books, 469 pages, $12.95), grows up as a boy who, hearth and heart, is stuck halfway between ...   More

Q & A White people. They’re everywhere, but especially they’re in Portland. They’re out there gingerly sipping their designer lattes in eco-friendly, sweatshop-free slacks, reminiscing fon ...   More

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Listen. As you know by now, possibly from these very pages—although this kind of news now always comes via text message, tragedy's new lightning bolt—David Foster Wallace, fiction writer, essayist, professor, hanged himself this weekend. The news reports all state his age, 46, as if it were a totem of the act itself. It ...   More

News Tim Crouch, ENGLAND, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Wed., Sept. 10, 6:30 pm

There are few things more difficult this week, apparently, than gaining entry to a Tim Crouch show. The normal strings could not be pulled. You could be gallery staff, media, a favored local ...   More

News Photo by Yasue Arai
Khris Soden, Portland Tour of Tilburg, PICA and beyond, Tue., Sept. 9, 6:30 pm

Khris Soden is not Dutch, but he is nonetheless offering a tour of Tilburg, a provincial city in the Netherlands, which he has mapped meticulously and ...   More

News Photo by Carolezoom.

Lemon Andersen, Winningstad Theater, Mon., Sept 8, 8:30 pm
There has been a glitch in the scheduling. Tiago Guedes, a talented Argentine performer, conceptual artist, and spontaneous maker of small gestures and iterative thing...   More

News Photo by Kenneth Aaron.

10 pm Friday, Sept. 5 at The Works:

Part of the joke in Neal Medlyn performing as Beyonce Knowles is that while she's obviously some sort of hand-waving affirmational diva-pop cyborg created by the shark-besuited fello...   More

News Photo by Christine Taylor.

When we talk about the unfinished walls at the still-not-quite-open Leftbank (240 N Broadway, 503-286-6442)—which plays house for this year's TBA fest's WORKS night...   More